[Newspoetry] A Tough Business Model to Follow

[Mike Lehman]

I think DL probably wanted to share this with everyone. As usual, his 
poetry is better than the actual news it's made from.
Mike Lehman

DL Emerick wrote:
> What?  Make money from poetry?
> Or even cover my fixed costs?
> I'm aghast, shocked, amazed;
> Ok, then? I'm simply jealous.
>
> I can't sell what I write;
> I can't sell what I don't write.
> I can't sell, I write.
> I can't write, I sell.
>
> Logic defies my writing,
> My writing defies logic,
> If logic is a two-bit whore,
> I can't touch her,
> For love nor money;
> I almost can touch her,
> Her symbol, her body.
>
> I can't sell me to her,
> Nor can I buy her,
> For she sells symbols,
> By seas shored and shorn,
> Seas of green, green horns.
>
> Why read a poem again?
> Why write one at all?
>
> Yeah, some of you are so good,
> I learn how to write from you,
> But I can't write to you,
> Nor do you hear me speaking.
>
> It's a one-way street,
> Trod by a street walker,
> Working for the pimps,
> Who do no work of love --
> Let me lie on your smooth tummy,
> Spread your legs for a pounding,
> Or a shilling or a fucking buck.
>
> Oh, she loves me, does she not?
> Pluck leaves of green money
> Like fig leaves in far Eden.
> I'm left bare, barely there.
> Time comes, comes again and again,
> Comes hard, until money runs out,
> Spurting away like a fountain.
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